Back from hollidays... I have just trying "--user-ignore-attribute=uidnumber,gidnumber", the server says that the posixAccount attribute requires uid and gid number. I will find another solution to solve my problem. <div class="im">James </div> <div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/20 Rob Crittenden <<a href="mailto:rcritten@redhat.com" target="_blank">rcritten@redhat.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">James James wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi, my first question is about the migrate process. Is it possible to renumber the users during the migrate process (ipa migrate-ds) in a way that all imported users will have a new UID ? </blockquote> </div> I haven't tested this but you might try --user-ignore-attribute=uidnumber,gidnumber.<div class="im"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> my second question is about ipalib. I wanted to make a hook on the user creation. The hook works fine. I just want to know if there is a way to have the value of variables like the username, the name of the creator, the e-mail of the creator and stuff like that. </blockquote> </div> The current user is available via: principal = getattr(context, 'principal') Using this you can look up that user: (binddn, bindattrs) = find_entry_by_attr("krbprincipalname", principal, "krbPrincipalAux") rob </blockquote></div>